How do people view time? Vertex 23S. Let me ask a question as soon as possible. Suppose there is an empty place or space. Just imagine it. If there is no matter there, does time still have meaning
Have you ever heard of a classic explanation about time? It probably means that time is something that was 'created' by people in order to measure the unit of material movement. Leaves fall from the branches to the ground. Apple is placed on the table, from fresh to perfect. People, from birth to death. People need a unit that can measure the state of matter, so they have time.
Maybe this description is still too abstract. Then, would you still use a clock that doesn't move its hands? No, get a new one. You need a collection of materials that are not broken to record time. Even if you can watch the stars and read the sun, you can tell what time it is by looking up. You need material to tell you the time.
Everything we know about time comes from matter. This probably explains something.
Going back to the original question, if matter no longer exists, does time still have meaning
Walter himself didn't know how many times he impatiently repeated that cycle of time. It was enough for him to be lucky that he had never 'really' seen the killing Zach, and it was also enough for him to remind himself that the next time he saw Zach When you're having fun, maybe don't make the "tsk" sound all the time? Well, the attitude is a little better.
But that's all. Walter didn't find any clues about 'soul expansion'. However, after witnessing John's obstruction over and over again, he had a strange feeling that the wizard had stabbed him accurately. Although the efficiency is not comparable to Zach's instant kill, he seems to know what he is doing very well.
There is a detail that is difficult to ignore after repeating it countless times: when Siris was impaled, Zach immediately stopped killing and chose to save people. John, did he shout "You" What to do! Don't stop! Finished killing! '
Walter didn't know if this was John's biological instinct in the current situation, or something else, but it was just a feeling.
Maybe after repeating it countless times, this feeling will lead to some conclusion, or maybe it won't. Walter didn't know. When you keep repeating as a bystander in a cycle, you will have an inexplicable feeling of losing control of the progress of your mind and saying, "Do it again, do it again." There is no conclusion this time, do it again, next time there is no conclusion, you can do it again... Do you understand, in this continuous cycle of repetition, this is the only fact you can grasp and rely on, anything else seems to be in vain.
Change occurs without warning and is disruptive.
Zach, who should have taken off the head of the passenger beside him in a beautiful turn around, disappeared. Walter was unconscious in the moment, feeling confused as he watched the alarm clock arrive at one o'clock but it didn't ring. The head that was supposed to be splattering blood in Zach's disembodied figure did not fly up. The owner of the head successfully reached into the inside of his coat.
Advance expansion begins to occur. It is a balloon that is stepped on to the bottom when inflated, inflating from the inside.
It seems that the self-destruction of everyone in the car is about to happen in advance.
But, everything started to fall apart. The inflated balloon is deflating. Everything is deflating.
Walter's confusion entered another dimension, which was interrupted by a tingling sensation on his forehead.
Don't be crazy, Walter can't see what's on his forehead, but he can sense everything around him. Things that keep collapsing and shrinking are like balloons at a party. If what is supposed to happen in this cycle is that the balloons at the party pop, creating chaos and ruining the otherwise festive party. Now, the colorful air is blowing out while whistling, spinning and flying in disorder. confusion? It did happen, but it was chaotic in Walter’s eyes.
Collapsed things, people, bus seats, witchcraft spells, blood, John's weapons... all the things that were flying in deflation and lingering in front of Walter's eyes began to sprint towards Walter.
A tingling sensation.
"Ah!" Walter covered his forehead.
He's wasting time. precious time.
Walter covered his forehead. He couldn't see what was happening on his forehead, but he could see that this cycle of time world was fading.
'I want to go out! '
"Let me out!!" Walter shouted into the void.
The Roman numerals that should have appeared in a blaze of dazzling gold did not appear. When the tingling sensation on his forehead disappeared, Walter was suspended in nothingness.
Is he lonely? No.
"Walter?" There was a voice in the void.
"who?!"
"Walter?! It's me! It's me! Lip!"
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"Your Holy Lord's faith is always so limited."
Papa was wrapped in a dark red spell at midnight, "You owe me once, remember it." The spell was pressed onto Walter's body.
So good, the fallen angel disappeared, leaving Louise here alone! The promised alliance that we can trust each other!
Louise was not stupid, staring at Papa Midnight with a pair of red eyes, "What are you doing!"
"Creating a Death Apostle~" Papa Midnight smiled back.
"you can not… "
"Dead Apostle or Rotten, your choice~" Papa shook his dreadlocks at midnight, enchantingly.
Louise shut up. Looking at Walter’s body under Papa Midnight’s hands, he was still twitching.
Probably Papa carved a slanted cross on his heart at midnight.
"Oh~ I can't hold it back~ Not bad~" Papa Midnight continued to be charming, "I'm teasing you~ I don't want this kind of uncontrollable soul~ Relax, I won't turn him into a Death Apostle~"
Regarding this point, Zach once told Benjamin that the Death Apostle Contract, remember, is a belief in witchcraft. Papa Midnight himself was not dissatisfied with the resistance made by the Federation after it was occupied by the Holy Lord Faith. He did not want all souls to All stolen by the Faith of the Holy Lord!
"I just stop the decay of this body~" Papa glanced at Louise with a smile at midnight, "Don't worry, this is not my first time~"
Louise was not 'fooled', she was not interested in asking Papa what the first time was at midnight!
Papa was quiet for a while at midnight, shook his head elegantly, and looked at Louise with an unkind expression, "Why don't you ask more?"
Louise pursed her lips tightly and decided to remain silent. As a Toledo, she understands the confidence of controlling the rhythm. Clearly Papa Midnight is the one sitting on that beat in this scene. Then don't give the other party a chance.
"Hmph." Papa shook his braids at midnight, "Your loss~" He raised his hand, and the dark red spell had disappeared, "It's done~ Haha, goodbye~" It disappeared as suddenly as it appeared.
Louise, staring at Walter who was lying on the table again, the instinctive disgust from her body had disappeared. But Walter is definitely not alive, there is no heartbeat, no blood flow... All signs of living things are absent, but there are no signs of death...
"Where did he go!"
Jessica came back, holding a kitchen knife with food residue in her hand, with a serious look on her face, "Did he hurt you?"
Louise curled her lips and looked at Jessica. The main emotion was helplessness. The fallen angel was not running away just now, but was going to get the container.
Too lazy to answer, he just shook his head and pointed at Walter, "Can you see anything?"
Jessica still checked the office cautiously, then walked towards Walter without touching him, observing from a distance, "What did Papa do at midnight? This body feels so strange."
"He said he stopped the body's decay." Louise frowned, thinking about something.
"Can he do such a thing??" There was no concealed suspicion.
"He once sold a Toledor corpse to Lesenbra of the Sabbat." Louise was thinking about something, "Toledor Messenger." The 'blood' in Zagel's parts, right? Louise shook her head, "So yes, he can probably do this kind of thing."
"Vampire's... corpse?" Jessica raised her eyebrows, then shook her head, "Forget it." Jessica cared about other things, more important things, "Why did Papa Midnight help us? And what did he mean? Do we owe him one?”
"Don't ask me." Louise closed her eyes, turned around and looked like she was about to leave. Her words were an aid to her actions, "I shouldn't waste time here." When she opened her eyes, the thinking in her eyes had disappeared, and she was looking at Jessica. "If Walter wakes up, tell him thank you for his help."
This is strange, Walter hasn’t done anything to help Louise yet. But it’s not surprising, didn’t Jessica say it from the beginning, she and Louise had probably the same reason for looking for Walter. Now there is an episode where Walter's body begins to decay inexplicably, and Louise is expressing her opinion.
"Where are you going?" Jessica asked.
"I don't know where Zach is." Louise paused before going out, "But I know." Looking back at Jessica, "With your information, I know that Zach is in danger. Maybe now his It is the safest to be completely without a trace. But the danger will not disappear, I need to do something." He lowered his head and whispered, "Especially when Benjamin cannot be relied on at all."
"Do you have a plan?" Jessica pursed her lips, her expression a little complicated.
"I don't know, I think..." Louise frowned, "I think I want to go find John. He told about Zach's assassination before you, didn't he. I..."
Jessica shook her head helplessly, "Do you think I didn't go to John when I got the 'soul expansion' news through the souls in hell?"
Louise opened her mouth, gave up leaving for the time being, turned to look at Jessica, "What did he say?"
"What did he say? Humph." Jessica shook the kitchen knife in her hand, "He said he sealed all his research and would never mention anything related to Papa Midnight from now on."
"What?" Louise was completely confused.
"Stop talking about you, I don't understand either." Jessica glanced at Walter, who was still lying down, and frowned, "The only thing I can think of is that he also knows about 'soul expansion', or maybe he is sure that it is aimed at stabbing An important argument for the assassination. But for some reason, this 'soul expansion' is related to Papa Midnight, and he, haha, is afraid."
"Scared?"
"He met Papa Midnight, didn't he?" Jessica looked at Walter, "Weren't he, Zach, and even Sires saved by Papa Midnight?" Jessica withdrew her gaze and shrugged, "Then, what did he, a wizard whose whole purpose was to take revenge on Papa Midnight, do anything? As far as we know, Zach called the police, Zach went to the North District to find Walter, and Zach did all the rest Did he, a wizard who hates his own god, do anything related to his revenge? Haha, he didn’t even do research on Sibera, and went to Raptor to protect his sister. Now." The last sentence is sarcastic, think about the group of people around Alice, protection? Forget it, as long as he is happy.
Louise's face began to look ugly.
So should we.
I remember when Zach was with Walter, the second time Zach asked Walter to take him to visit another world, Zach asked Walter if John also ran away when they entered this gray world for the first time. Walter didn't answer. Isn't that the tacit admission of 'you know I won't discuss this with you'.
We all know where Zach wandered off to, back in time, causing his first amnesia. So, where did John go
Let's all be sensible and imagine this situation.
I know that this stage of the story keeps repeating itself like a ghost beating a wall. Ink is constantly being written on that point that has long been abandoned behind the timeline.
But that's the point. That cycle repeats itself without affecting the real timeline. Have you thought of it? Time is cyclical, constantly starting and ending.
You don’t think that everyone is the same as Zach, with that kind of confidence and taking it for granted, and experiencing the same things over and over again while remaining self-righteous and calm.
What would you do if you were given a chance to live in a cycle of time with the person you hate so much
I told everyone what I would do, I would humiliate, kill, and abuse that guy no matter what. Anyway, it has no impact on reality, so I just want to enjoy the repetitive pleasure!
But there is a prerequisite. I am stronger than him, and I want to have the ability to make myself happy. Otherwise, I would probably be insulted, killed, abused, and then the cycle would continue endlessly.
Where was John when Zach was running around.
In reality, he was already indifferent once, just like the loop that Walter kept watching, paralyzed and incapacitated when Papa appeared at midnight, requiring Zach to carry him to Ixton.
Do you want to change something? I think so.
Just don’t talk about changing reality... How about giving it a try? Know when the object of your hatred will appear and what he will do, and then try it with all your strength!
Now, Jessica looks at Louise, Louise looks at Jessica, and the conversation is, "He's scared."
The guy who once swore in front of Zach, "I'm not afraid of Papa Midnight," was afraid. This is a conclusion that can only be reached after experiencing extremely tragic things.
"I don't care!" Louise turned around and started moving forward again, "If he knows something! I must know!!"